Democrats Are Kidding Themselves on Crime

'I saw a body!' Conservative gets heated defending Trump's deployment to 'crime-ridden' DC

A conservative commentator got heated on Wednesday while defending claims that Washington, D.C., is an unsafe city to live in. Scott Jennings, an advisor to Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), appeared on CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" to discuss President Donald Trump's recent move to deploy federal troops into D.C. The president has claimed that the nation's capital is "infested" with crime, even though federal data shows crime is at a 30-year low…

Democrats Are Kidding Themselves on Crime

‘But crime is going down!” That’s what many liberal thought leaders are bleating lately, and who can blame them? President Trump has called Washington, DC, a “crime-ridden hellhole,” teeming with “bloodthirsty criminals” and “roving mobs of wild youth,” and he’s quipped that “even the rats” are fleeing the nation’s capital. So it’s only fair to counter with data showing that violent crime in DC has been plunging swiftly from its pandemic peaks, …